A Journal of Free Voices 250 A Window to the South Jan. 18, 1974 The Saturday night special "It's all over for the Indians just like it is for the gunfighter," lamented that grand drunken gunslinger Kid Shelleen. " `Cept they didn't give us no reservation or teach us how to weave rugs. Yeah, it's all over in Dodge. Tombstone too. Cheyenne, Deadwood, all gone. All dead and gone. Pow! Why, the last time I come through Tombstone the biggest excitement there was about the roller-skatin' rink they'd laid out over the O.K. • Corral." being thoughtless enough to run out of gas By Robert Sherrill on the way home? Or the jivey New York youth who shot the discotheque manager who wouldn't sell him a ticket? Or the If many Americans seem to share Kid's Maryland host who decided to restore nostalgia, they can be forgiven. Nostalgia is NiumENC--" gaiety to his party. by shooting the guest reserved for landmark events that occurred recently enough that the current who refused to stop arguing with his own generation can identify with them, and if wife? Or the Ohio engineer who got tired Americans feel — as their periodic of hearing the bomb-loaded B-52s flying celebrations of the event would indicate — over his home near Wright-Patterson Air that they were present at the birth of the Force Base and used one of his three gun, they aren't far wrong. Perhaps the high-powered rifles to puncture the planes most remarkable thing about guns is that, that came near? Or the two motorists in Maryland who ended their little traffic although their basic principle of operation dispute with a pistol and a shotgun, one has been known and utilized for at least shot in the leg, the other in the chest; or five hundred years, the gun as a symbol of the New York woman who killed one and wounded two in a gunfight over a parking space; or the Virginia woman who, The Observer is proud to present the claiming she was run off the road by beginning of Robert Sherrill's new book another motorist, climbed out of her car THE SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL and with a .38 pistol in hand and dispatched Other Guns with Which Americans Won (Continued on Page 3) the West, 4'rotected Bootleg Franchises, * It may be that some cosmic thumb was held Slew Wildlife, Robbed Countless Banks, on the scale to keep gun-design progress down, in balance with medical progress, which was slow Shot Husbands Purposely and by Mistake indeed. Back in the days when European armies & Killed Presidents — Together with the 6 were trying to kill each other with bullets that Debate Over Continuing Same. The I wouldn't travel the length of a football field, publisher is Charterhouse, New York, and serious physicians were using a gunshot balm concocted from two boiled puppies, whose flesh the price is $8.95 or if you're really broke, efficient deadliness is a relatively recent phenomenon.* was then mixed with a pound of boiled it should be available soon at your nearest earthworms, plus white wine, brandy — and library. We do urge you to read it in any prayer. By the seventeenth century medical case. We will even spare you the Annual O SAY that these weapons have knowledge had progressed to the point that when T a patient who had been shot in the head was Gun Control Editorial if you promise to helped establish the American way of life is brought to one of the famous physicians of the read it. Sherrill's most impressive credential actually too modest a judgment: they are a day, he located the fracture by the sound caused is, of course, that he was once an editor of part of America's life, and we respond to through striking the skull with a cane. Gunshot the Observer. He's written for a few piddly and with guns in a very American way. wounds in the eighteenth century were commonly treated indirectly — which, organizations since he left here such as The Could any response be more American considering everything, was probably best — with Nation and The New York Times. Also, he than that of the two New York youths purgative salts, and blue pills. For more of this writes books and managed to get himself who shot and killed a storekeeper because esoterica, see Dr. Theodor Billroth, Historical banned from the White House. He is a fine Studies on the Nature and Treatment of Gunshot they had asked for apple pie and he had Wounds From the Fifteenth Century to the and witty writer, a tough and independent offered them Danish pastry instead? Or the Present Time (New Haven: Nathan Smith Medical thinker and a well-known curmudgeon. husband who shot and killed his wife for Club, 1933). (lace, glass, silver) from permanent collection, forests with fairy queens and the unbeatable supplemented by major loan of English 17th and Botton; through January, Alley Theatre, The 18th century silver; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston. MASTERS' DEGREE RECITAL — William JANUARY 10 Cason, baritone; 8 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall, VAN MORRISON — Irish singer-songwriter on University of Texas, Austin. his first Texas tour; through Jan 12, Armadillo coming World Headquarters, Austin. JANUARY 18 JAZZ CONCERT — Austin Symphony JANUARY 12 Orchestra, guest conducted by Leon Thompson, COMET-GAZET — Kohoutek freaks gather for with Modern Jazz Quartet; 8 p.m., Municipal weekend of watching the comet and the cosmos Auditorium, Austin. in "Heavenly Weekend" (ya'll come); through fortnight FIGARO, FIGARO — Fort Worth Opera Jan. 13, Peaceable Kingdom School, Washington on the Brazos. Association presents "The Marriage of Figaro"; also Jan. 20, Convention Center Theatre, Fort Worth. By Suzanne Shelton JANUARY 13 SUNDAY CONCERT - Spend an afternoon JANUARY 19 listening to Sandra Powell, clarinetist, in concert; JANUARY GRAB BAG Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas. MISS BRENDA LEE — Twenty-year recording IMPRESSIONS OF THICKET — Michael veteran (she's only 28), Brenda Lee performs in Frary's paintings from his recent book, POETS perform - Reading and discussion of Masters Festival of Music, with saxophonist "Impressions of the Big Thicket," in special original works by three Dallas poets, Marjorie Boots Randolph and pianist Floyd Cramer exhibition; through Jan. 29, Laguna Gloria Art Rosenfeld, Carolyn Sumner and Donald Dial; 3 providing Nashville Sound; 8:15 p.m., State Fair Museum, Austin. p.m. Founders North Auditorium, University of Music Hall, Dallas. Texas, Dallas. JANUARY 20 MOPPETS & PHOTOS — "Children's Art" HMMMM — So familiar you could hum it, Van OPERA BENEFIT — Members of UT voice exhibit, through Jan. 30; "Photographs of 'The faculty perform in music scholarship benefit, City' by Harry Callahan, exhibit made possible Cliburn playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Houston Symphony Orchestra, featuring "Great Moments of Opera;" not to be through grant from National Endowment for missed are Jess Walters, Mattawilda Dobbs, Arts, through Feb. 15; University of Texas, conducted by Mario Benzecry; through Jan. 15, Jones Hall, Houston. Martha Deatherage, Arturo Sergi and Orville Dallas. White in nostalgic look back at their careers (Walters and Dobbs, for example, performed CULTURE FOR SOLONS — Special art JANUARY 14 O'NEILL CHESTNUT — "Desire Under the "Rigoletto" together at Covent Garden); 8 p.m., display for Texas Constitutional Convention, Hogg Auditorium, University of Texas, Austin. including Texas landscapes, San Antonio mission Elms," by Eugene O'Neill, with student cast; studies, views of Galveston harbor, the streets of through Jan. 19, Studio Theatre, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos. PIANIST PERFORMS — David Hiemer in Castroville, snake dances and the inevitable afternoon concert; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas. bluebonnets — as motley a crew as the CZECH CHAMBER MUSIC — Czech Chamber convention itself; House of Representatives JANUARY 21 chamber, Capitol, Austin. Orchestra performs for Dallas Chamber Music Society Series; Caruth Auditorium, Southern FACULTY CONCERT — Violinist Stephen Methodist University, Dallas. Clapp, accompanied by UT faculty colleague DUTCH LOAN — Drawings from Danielle Martin in works by Beethoven, Bach and Kroller-Muller National Museum of Netherlands, JANUARY 15 Ravel; 8 p.m., Music Building Recital Hall, with works by van Gogh, Chagall, Picasso, DISTINGUISHED ARTISTS— New London University of Texas, Austin. Mondriaan, Giacometti, others, in only display scheduled for Southwest, through March 3, ORGAN RECITAL — Land Thomas performs McNay Art Institute, San Antonio. for American Guild of Organists, Dallas chapter; Caruth Auditorium, Dallas. INDIAN WOMEN'S ART — Weaving, basketry and pottery by Southwest Indian women in JANUARY 22 exhibit arranged by Barbara LaMont, Huntington JULLIARD STRINGS — Musical event of Galleries; also works by three recently-retired UT annual importance, Julliard String Quartet artists, Constance Forsyth (water colors), Russell performs entire cycle of Beethoven quarters in Lee (photographs) and William Lester (paintings); residency which includes lecture/demonstrations; plus display of "Navaho Art: Indian Blankets," through Jan. 30, Hogg Auditorium and Music items from UT's Texas Memorial Museum Building Recital Hall, University of Texas, collection; through Feb. 10, Art Museum, Austin. University of Texas, Austin. LA TRAVIATA — Violetta and Alfredo slug it BROWN PAVILION OPENING — Museum of out again in Verdi's popular opera (remember the Fine Arts inaugurates its new Mies van der Soloists Ensemble appear in Distinguished Artists movie "Camille?" — Same old song) performed Rohe-designed Brown Pavilion with exhibition of Series; 8:15 p.m., Roxy Grove, Hall, Baylor by Houston Grand Opera with superstar Beverly "The Great Decade of American Abstraction: University, Waco. Sills; also Jan. 25-27, Jones Hall, Houston. Modernist. Art 1960 to 1970" also in Brown Pavilion, Ashanti Gold Weights from collection of WITCHES ON TRIAL — Arthur Miller's "The PERCUSSION ON TAP — Baylor Percussion Mr.